orthodoxy
Example Sentences
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There are no political, religious or secularist orthodoxies or litmus tests.
Analytically minded front offices, full of Ivy League data wonks with little or no playing experience, have far less reverence for baseball orthodoxy and have begun looking for talent in unusual places.
Early in her career, she hewed to the scientific orthodoxy at the time that such viruses couldn’t persist in the body.
From Science Magazine
"There is a prevailing orthodoxy that it is an unadulterated good. I don't think that's always the case."
From BBC
Old orthodoxies should be shattered, rivals dented and establishment egos bruised in pursuit of a project external-link that justified it all.
From BBC
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